Over a dozen indigenous Africans in official dress gathered in a 17th floor Manhattan courtroom Thursday for the latest in a court battle over the bones of their ancestors, massacred by colonial Germans in the first genocide of the 20th century.
Read moreFrom his post as a young SS private in a watchtower in Nazi Germany’s Stutthof concentration camp, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber. Dey told investigators the carting of their lifeless bodies to the camp’s crematorium was a daily sight.
Read moreFive people were injured in clashes between Kurdish and Turkish communities in the western German city of Herne, police said Monday, as Kurds demonstrated against Ankara’s invasion of northeastern Syria.
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German Jewish leaders and politicians on Friday accused the far-right AfD party of whipping up hatred that made the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Halle possible, a charge rejected by the party.
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Audio recordings from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders will be made available to the public for the first time in digital form after nearly two years of work conducted in secret.
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At least two people were shot dead in the German city of Halle on Wednesday in an anti-Semitic attack as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur, with the gunman filming the assault and posting a video online.
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Scientists have chosen an ice floe on which to begin setting up a research camp for a year-long international expedition to study the Arctic, Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute said Friday.
Read moreSettling a years-long dispute, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that denying the Holocaust happened is not protected expression under Europe’s human rights convention.
Read moreGerman carmaker Opel said Tuesday it would slash hours for workers at its main factory, highlighting a car industry hit by falling demand and a challenging technological transformation.
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A case pitting hundreds of thousands of owners of manipulated diesel cars demanding compensation opened against German car behemoth Volkswagen Monday, four years after the country’s largest post-war industrial scandal erupted.
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German prosecutors have fined Daimler $957 million over the alleged certification of diesel cars whose emissions didn’t comply with regulatory requirements.
Read moreGerman prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged Volkswagen’s current chief executive and chairman as well as its former CEO with market manipulation in connection with the diesel emissions scandal that erupted in 2015.
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A German court said in a ruling published Monday that hangovers are an “illness,” in a timely judgement days after the annual Oktoberfest beer festival began in Munich.
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For years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the mantra for millions of former East Germans was to “Go West” for better jobs and opportunities. But three decades on, an increasing number are returning to their roots to seek a fresh start.
Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government plans to commit at least $110 billion on climate protection by 2030, according to a draft policy paper being discussed Thursday.
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Thousands of people are demonstrating in Frankfurt to demand more action against climate change as the German city’s auto show opens to the public, with some cycling into the city along highways that were closed temporarily for the occasion.
Read moreSiding with its magistrate, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a German law subjecting Google and other search engines to demands for licensing fees for publishing excerpts from news articles needs to be cleared by European regulators – and can be disregarded until that happens.
Read moreGerman Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Tuesday presented a 2020 budget that sticks to the country’s longstanding no-new-debts “black zero” policy, defying speculation in financial markets that Berlin might borrow to fund investments.
Read moreEurope’s highest court ruled against the German railway Deutsche Bahn on Thursday for allowing passengers to book online with a direct debit card only if they are German residents.
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Lawyers hired by German chemical giant Bayer found no illegal activity in “watch lists” of hundreds of pro- and anti-pesticide figures kept by its subsidiary Monsanto, the firm said Thursday.
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